CUNY Union Rallies for New Contract Amid Push for Additional State Budget Investment
City University of New York faculty, staff, and students marched outside CUNY Central headquarters in East Midtown early Monday morning, in a nearly 500 person-strong rally organized by the Professional Staff Congress – the union representing over 30,000 CUNY employees. The rally was scheduled for the eve of the expiration…
New PSC – CUNY Rising Ads Urge New Yorkers to Tell Their Electeds: Support The New Deal for CUNY
The PSC, in coalition with the CUNY Rising Alliance, launched a digital ad campaign this week calling on New Yorkers to contact their elected officials to support and fund the New Deal for CUNY (ND4C). The ads, which are set to run almost 1000 times on TV in NYC…
PSC-CUNY Rallies for Better Working Conditions
The Professional Staff Congress (the union representing faculty members) held a protest outside CUNY Central on Feb 27, the day before their contract expired. The union’s bargaining agenda is taking into consideration the impact that COVID-19 had on union members and students. These include learning to shift modalities from in-person…
CUNY workers rally for new contract
The Professional Staff Congress — which represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York — rallied outside of the CUNY headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Monday morning to outline their demands for a new contract as their contract is set to expire. The union’s demands include…
Op-Ed | CUNY is at an inflection point in this year’s state budget
Each year, the State budget has the power to shape the lives of hundreds of thousands of CUNY students and tens of thousands of dedicated faculty and staff. Through 46 years of teaching at CUNY, I’ve been here for periods where CUNY was fully funded and the promise of public…
CUNY union launches campaign to boost higher education support
The union that represents faculty and staff at the City University of New York is launching a digital and TV ad campaign meant to boost higher education funding in the state budget. The campaign from the Professional Staff Congress will begin airing on Tuesday in the Albany and New York…
Contract Rally Monday | Tell Albany to Fund the New Deal for CUNY
Can we count you in for the Monday Morning Rally? Be there in solidarity before work Monday, February 27 as PSC members rally outside CUNY Central (205 E. 42nd St.) the morning before our contract expires. Show management that we need inflation-beating raises, extra pay increases for lower paid colleagues,…
Opinion: Increasing CUNY and SUNY tuition is a working and middle-class tax increase in disguise
It’s time for the state to reinvest in both institutions and follow through on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s vision for higher education. In 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out an ambitious agenda for public higher education in New York. She committed to increasing CUNY and SUNY funding by $1.5 billion over…
At CUNY, a fight for food — and recognition
At the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, empty stomachs were walking down empty halls. Despite the return to in-person work, and the wish to congregate with others, students, faculty and staff have largely been avoiding the campus this semester, dodging Midtown’s notoriously high food prices, and…
